Five Things in Fedora This Week (2014-04-01)

Wed Apr 2 13:29:38 UTC 2014

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On 04/02/2014 08:20 AM, poma wrote:
> On 02.04.2014 13:54, Liam Proven wrote:
>> On 2 April 2014 10:37, Patrick O'Callaghan
>> <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> but a redesign of the X protocol, i.e. it's not ABI
>>> compatible.
>> 
>> 
>> No, it's not a redesign of anything. It is an entirely new GUI
>> layer which entirely replaces X.11 - as has been done in both
>> Android and Mac OS X and which Canonical are attempting to do
>> with Mir.
> 
> Mir was a space station that operated in low Earth orbit from 1986
> to 2001, owned at first by the Soviet Union and then by Russia. Mir
> was the first modular space station and was assembled in orbit from
> 1986 to 1996.
> 
> How much is Tour de Mir per capita?
> 

I realize you're likely being a troll, but Mir is Canonical/Ubuntu's
alternative to Wayland. It's another post-X11, compositing display
server meant to address basically the same needs that Wayland does.
Canonical made a big noise a few years ago that Wayland was the wrong
approach and tried to get support for its alternative, but years later
Wayland is nearly ready for use and Mir has seen countless delays, as
well as zero distributions adopting it outside of Ubuntu.